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Stem Crack

5.9+, Trad, 60 ft (18 m),  Avg: 3 from 1 vote
FA: Dave Melrose, 1991
California > San Francisco B… > Wine Country/No… > Sonoma Coast SP > Dry Creek Sea Crag > Upper Tier

Description

So-named after the only note I could find near it on Howe's topo map on the main page. Dave, if you find the name, let's hear it! A cruiser start up a splitter crack that winds it's way up the climber's right wall of the gully leads to a stack of varied "crack boulder" problems, each increasing in difficulty, until surmounting the final challenge puts you in a stemmable notch with a two-bolt anchor (currently adorned with rusty chain, but bolts are good) that spits you out at the top of the Red Wall.

Location

At the base of the Couloir, look up and just to the right of the Sport Wall at a broken crack system.

Protection

Single rack .3-3, 2-bolt anchor accessible from top.

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Anybody got history on this route? Couldn't find it in my (admittedly out of date) guidebook, looks fun!
[Hide Photo] Anybody got history on this route? Couldn't find it in my (admittedly out of date) guidebook, looks fun!